Key moments as the day of terror in the United States unfolded. This is the timetable of destruction on 11 September 2001.

0845 Eastern Daylight Time (1245GMT)American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York. It had set off from Boston en route to Los Angeles with 92 people on board.

0940 EDT American Airlines Flight 77, carrying 64 people from Washington to Los Angeles, crashes into the Pentagon in Washington. The nerve centre of the US military bursts into flames and a portion of one side of the five-sided structure collapses.

0943 EDT Abu Dhabi television reports it received a call from the
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claiming responsibility for
crashing two planes into the WTC. However leading officials later deny the claim.